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Intro catheter aorta at UPMC Williamsport
700 High Street, Williamsport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 164974648
$580.80
Cash price Discounted cash price What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge. Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$968.00
Gross charge Gross charge (chargemaster price) The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this. Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$122.10 with Geisinger vs $993.28 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →Payer ?Payer The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on. Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509. Full explanation → |
Plan ?Plan The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates. Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $122.10 | ↓ -79% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $122.10 | ↓ -79% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $122.10 | ↓ -79% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $125.15 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $155.96 | ↓ -73% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $189.17 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $261.36 | ↓ -55% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $385.17 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $392.52 | ↓ -32% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $422.05 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products | $453.60 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $461.74 | ↓ -20% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $484.97 | ↓ -16% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $538.21 | ↓ -7% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $544.88 | ↓ -6% |
| Three Rivers Provider Network | All | $582.89 | ↑ +0% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $601.90 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna | First Health | $638.88 | ↑ +10% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $648.56 | ↑ +12% |
| Coventry/First Health | FH-Medical Rental | $651.46 | ↑ +12% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $662.11 | ↑ +14% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $663.08 | ↑ +14% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $755.04 | ↑ +30% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $755.04 | ↑ +30% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $774.40 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $774.40 | ↑ +33% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $993.28 | ↑ +71% |
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Intro catheter aorta at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $4,540.80 | $122.10 – $6,432.80 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $2,500.80 | $122.10 – $3,751.20 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $3,157.20 | $122.10 – $4,472.70 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $7,651.20 | $122.10 – $10,839.20 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $4,321.20 | $122.10 – $5,401.50 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $1,912.80 | $122.10 – $2,709.80 |